Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the predominant news of the economy was heartening, the question remains : Is it just a spring flowering or the start of a full recovery? Stock market investors clearly believe that a full recovery is ready to get under way. In brisk and broad trading, the market gained 12.92 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average, closed the week at 676.48, only nine points below its alltime peak...
...contrasting establishments in Muncie are doing a brisk business. One is Muncie's top department store, Ball Stores, Inc. "We had the best December in our 50-year history," glows General Merchandise Manager Ralph Chase. "We don't seem to be following the trend." The other is the Delaware County surplus food distribution center, where needy families collect their monthly rations of federal handouts - dried eggs, dried milk, flour, corn meal, lard, butter. This month the distribution center will stay open twice as many days as it usually does in order to handle the demands of some...
Conductor Michael Senturia '58, maintained a brisk and active pace throughout (certain of his tempi, particularly in the first movement, approached those of the demonic Fritz Reiner). If the symphony as a whole seemed to lack a unity of dramatic conception--only the final allegro was convincingly cohesive--individual sections of it were performed with real distinction. The faultless intonation of the orchestra's winds (the first desk flute and clarinet merit special attention), the resounding firmness of the brasses--all these are easily the equal of almost any professional orchestra. The strings were perhaps too eager to glow wtih...
...welfare programs that the President has urged upon Congress-aid to education, increases in the minimum wage, help for depressed areas, and medical care for the aged through social security-add up to a fairly brisk speedup in the U.S.'s creeping welfarism, but the separate proposals are in scope much the same as Candidate Nixon suggested...
...Desiring, by Menna Gallie. In her brisk, garrulous and charming fashion, Novelist Gallie has created a dogged Welsh math teacher who keeps his village innocence amid the lean fleshpots and fat sophistries of an English university...